Mário Soares
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL, KE (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmaɾiu suˈaɾɨʃ]; 7 December 1924 – 7 January 2017) was a Portuguese politician. He served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985. He was President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996.
Mário Soares | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 20 July 1999 – 19 July 2004 | |
Constituency | Portugal |
17th President of Portugal | |
In office 9 March 1986 – 9 March 1996 | |
Prime Minister | Aníbal Cavaco Silva António Guterres |
Preceded by | António Ramalho Eanes |
Succeeded by | Jorge Sampaio |
Prime Minister of Portugal | |
In office 9 June 1983 – 6 November 1985 | |
President | António Ramalho Eanes |
Deputy | Carlos Mota Pinto Rui Machete |
Preceded by | Francisco Pinto Balsemão |
Succeeded by | Aníbal Cavaco Silva |
In office 23 July 1976 – 28 August 1978 | |
President | António Ramalho Eanes |
Preceded by | Vasco de Almeida e Costa |
Succeeded by | Alfredo Nobre da Costa |
Personal details | |
Born | Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares 7 December 1924 Lisbon, Portugal |
Died | 7 January 2017 Lisbon, Portugal | (aged 92)
Political party | National: Socialist Party European: Party of European Socialists |
Spouse(s) | Maria Barroso |
Children | 2 |
Profession | Lawyer Historian Professor |
Mário Soares Media
Mário Soares during the campaign for the 1986 presidential election, in a village in Northern Portugal
Soares attending a rally in Lisbon to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, 25 April 2014
Mário Soares lying-in-state in Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon, 10 January 2017
Other websites
Media related to Mário Soares at Wikimedia Commons
- (in Portuguese) Fundação Mário Soares
- (in Portuguese) Soares' official site for the Portuguese elections of 2006 Archived 2019-01-29 at the Wayback Machine